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is to work within the Government to create incentives that will improve outcomes for American citizens. Some examples.

* Defense Department - no more Cost Plus contracts that encourage companies to at least claim they need more money to complete a project due to the costof items that are out of their control. Either eliminate the increases - encouraging the companies to bid for contingencies, or limit the increases to some reasable number like 5 or 10% over-runs - not 500%

* Reward civil servants - in part, based on public feedback. Every company on the planet sends you a text or email these days - asking "How did we do?". Let's do the same for the Veterans Administration, the IRS and Social Security Administration.

I"m sure you could come up with many more examples. But let's make the Government accountable to the citiziens, even at the bureacratic level.

when you see people at Anti Trump/Must rallies, people who went out of their way to show their outrage at what was going on - then when you ask them why they are there - they have no real idea. They recite stupid generalities - with no specific complaint. How are humans this stupid? This is a serious question - how do people get motivated to act, whent they can't explain their motivations?

I'm an old white boomer and I don't understand their logic. Personal responsibility was the ethos when I was growing up. I'm not sure how these bozo's got so stupid.

Folks - anyone building a new factory today is going to have massively increased automation. This is true for a few reasons

1. The technology is ready. There are dozens of companies developing and fielding humanoid robots equipped with artificial intelligence. And there is an order of magnitude more that are developing specific purpose robots that have the intelligence to be better and cheaper thanhumans

2. The tariffs won't be in place forever. To stay competitive in a post tarriff era, companies based in the US must have a competitive advantage over the factories in Vietnam, India, China and other far eastern countires who pay their workers pennies on the the dollar and have no regard for the environment.

3. Just as you said - we probably don't have enough American Citizens to produce all the good we need the old fashioined way. We need one worker doing the work of 10 as he/she oversee's and inspects the work of our robot cousins.

If Newsome actually moves to the center he'll never win the nomination. The left is moving further left. He'll either have to jump parties or form a new one.

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then drug prices will sky rocket by 3000% and people will be bitching about it

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Horse shite. Listen - fix one problem at a time. Big Pharma already gouges Americans. Add fixing Pharma to Trumps list and he'll get it done.

You don't "fund" tax breaks - so let's start with that.

I think we will be using some heavy bombers to get bunker busters to target their munitions stockpiles buried deep underground. Of course, I'm sure they're under an orphanage or old folks home.

I often wondered who would be the next Da Vinci, Newton or Einstein. Elon is very much like them - and very different as well. But he is a visionary, a man who dreamed what "could be" and beyond all odds is on the way to making it happen. He's revolutionized the car industry, the space industry, robotics and artificial intelligence. We are witnessing a historic figure that will be talked about in centuries to come. No one will remember AOC or Schumer - they have accomplished nothing.

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I’m a pedestrian in this conversation, but I DO wonder about this technology in the clumsy way of the layperson.

I have always wondered how AI would simulate olfactory senses.

Sense of smell is somehow connected to human memory and all the cascade of perception that comes with memory formation and recollection.

Wondering how AI will be like humans without a sense of smell.

Or does the technology already exist to allow AI olfactory abilities?

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You really have to expand from our current normal to something that is almost beyond imagination at the moment, but regarding the experiences of a living being - here are my thoughts

- We have sensors that can detect "smells". They can detect smoke, gasses and whatever particles are floating in the air
- with technology like Elons NeuraLink - computers can tap in to the human and the animal experience. It's a direct connection to the brain of a living person or animal.
- as for the other person who thinks it's as easy as unplugging artificial intelligence - to control it. You better think again. You'd have to unplug every computer related device in the world. I read a fictional story about an AI that had no internet connection so was totally under the control of the human operaters. But the AI was able to link with a Roomba style robot, download tiny bits of it's code, which was then uploaded to a connected computer. After a couple of years, the AI escaped. And don't sell short the ability of God like intellegence to convince US to let it run free.